According to Google Scholar, in 2016 alone, 938 face recognition algorithms were published, 34 patents were filed, and dozens of face recognition startups were established. As quickly as they are being founded, these startups are being acquired- the latest deals […]
Ingenuity was honoured to be invited to participate in the 2017 Bank Of America Merrill Lynch APAC TMT Conference held in Taipei on March 22’nd last. Dr William Keating, founder & CEO of Ingenuity (Hong Kong) Research & Consulting, shared […]
With the ever increasing pace of innovation, competition and investment in autonomous driving (AD), we thought it might be good to start 2017 with a review of the different levels of AD. Until last year, there were two US standards […]
Contrary to recent popular perception that Alphabet (aka Google) was backing away from its autonomous driving efforts (apparently the first of the so-called Google-X projects), last month the company announced the formation of Waymo as a separate entity under the […]
USA Today did an excellent summary of the autonomous driving sector at last week’s CES in this article. One of the observations by author Mike Snider that .. “It’s clear now that engineers are able to make cars drive themselves. […]
NVIDIA put on a typically impressive performance at CES last week. In particular focus was their progress as a key supplier of platforms for autonomous vehicles, namely the AI-based DRIVE PX 2. Scott Keogh, president of Audi of America, speaks […]
MediaTek laid out their plans to bring holistic, fully integrated system solutions to the automotive industry beginning Q1 2017 according to their Nov 29’th 2016 press release- details here. The renowned Taiwan-based global fabless semiconductor giant is a market leader in […]
GM’s reported $1B acquisition (cash, stock & retention incentives) of autonomous-driving startup, Cruise Automation, marked a distinct change in the auto-maker’s strategy. You can read the WSJ report on the deal here and a more recent Forbes article here. Earlier, this […]
Privately held autonomous-driving startup yesterday announced that they will begin testing their self-driving Renault Zoe electric vehicle before the end of the year in the Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park in the Seaport section of the city- details from their […]
At SC16 last week, AMD announced that their Radeon Technology will be available on Google Cloud Platform in 2017. Coming just a month after a similar announcement with Alibaba, things are looking up for AMD. This Forbes article gives some further […]